From a cPanel web hosting perspective, mail filters are different set of rules that are applied to all mail on your account or to an individual mail account. When these rules are met, a predefined action toward received emails is taken.
For instance, you might want to redirect all emails to johndoe@nowhere.com (this is the action) [...]

SpamAssassin is one of the most popular open-source antispam out there. The best part is that it can be integrated into cPanel and managed easily from a web interface.
If you want to use SpamAssassin to filter your emails, the first thing you’ll have to do is enable it.
Assuming you’re already logged in cPanel, click on [...]

When another website links directly to your files, it is called HotLinking. And when a website is hotlinking your files, it uses your bandwidth and storage space. Even worse, chances are the visitor downloading the file will never know about your website.
The good news is that you can prevent this using cPanel.
This tutorial assumes that [...]

Yesterday I wrote a post on how to protect your webserver against brute force attacks using APF and BFD. If you are using WHM, there’s similar alternative using cPHulk.
cPHulk is a brute force protection system developped by the cPanel team and is exclusive to cPanel / WHM control panels. It has been integrated with cPanel [...]

In computer security, a brute force attack is a way to gain access to a remote server’s resources by trying multiple combinations of logon names and passwords until a valid one is found. Most of the time, this type of attack is performed by a script which uses a list of the most common-known usernames [...]